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Title: The peaches of New York
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hedrick, U. P Howe, G. H. (George Henry), b. 1888 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo
Subjects: Peach Fruit-culture
Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, printers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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D. Husted,Vineyard, Georgia, in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century. It wasintroduced in 1899 by Mr. Husted and has since been grown commerciallyeast and west, north and south. The American Pomological Societyplaced the variety on its fruit-list in 1909 as Dewey but the full namebestowed to commemorate the great Admiral should, we think, be retained. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, very productive; trunk thick, smooth;branches stocky, reddish-brown mingled with light ash-gray; branchlets slender, long,olive-green overspread with dark red, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous lenticels,raised near the base. Leaves six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface olive-green, smooth except near the midrib; lower surfacelight grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole one-fourth inch long, with one to seven large, reniform, greenish-yellow glands variable inposition.
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ADMIRAL DEWEY THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 179 Flower-buds small, short, conical, pubescent, plump, free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across, weU distributed, usually in twos;pedicels short, thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dull reddish-green, orange-colored within,campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, broad, obtuse, glabrous within, slightly pubescentwithout; petals round-ovate, tapering to short, broad claws red at the base; filamentsone-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, equal to thestamens in length. Fruit matures early; two and one-fourth inches long, two and one-half inches wide,round-oblate, slightly compressed; cavity deep, wide, abrupt, with tender skin; sutureshallow, becoming deeper at the extremities; apex roundish or flattened, with mucronatetip variable in size; color deep orange-yellow, blushed with dark red, indistinctly splashedand mottled; pubescence heavy; skin thin, tender, adherent to t

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